Month: March 2020

Kent Jorgenson (Hornberger Lab) was recently awarded a Spring 2020 Student Research Grants Competition Award for Research Travel by the UW-Madison Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Funding in the Graduate School. Funding for these awards is generously supported by the Vilas Trust and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF). Kent’s research focuses on the Deposition …

Chris Morrow (Moore lab) recently published an article in Cell Stem Cell called “Vimentin Coordinates Protein Turnover at the Aggresome during Neural Stem Cell Quiescence Exit”. Recent evidence suggests that neural stem cell (NSC) quiescence exit is a significant barrier to adult neurogenesis. Morrow et al. reveal that NSCs rely on vimentin-mediated proteasome localization to …